The Expression of Distress Among Quora Users: Discursive Analysis of Covid-19 Suffering in Life Narratives.

Abstract

Our research focuses on digital discourse analysis. In this dissertation, we try to analyze the life narratives of Quora users. Our objective is to study how suffering is expressed on social media during the outbreak of Covid-19. We selected a corpus of 16 narratives where we first try to explain the subjectivity of the Internet user and to analyze the linguistic markers used to express suffering and distress. Then, we examine these stories in order to identify the distinct discursive strategies employed by Quora users.